Example sentences of "had [been] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been midday Monday before she mentioned , in conversation with one of her regular customers , that MacQuillan had been to the Black Friar . |
| 2 | Once he had been to the forbidden place — for him , England — and once he had succeeded in returning , he would have been taken by a tide , a powerful current drawing him back to the heartwoods . |
| 3 | George Fox 's original appeal had been to the poor , but soon the Friends were led by the ‘ respectable classes ’ in the same manner as the other early denominations . |
| 4 | The old imperial line of communication through the Mediterranean , Suez Canal , Red Sea and Indian Ocean to the Far East and the Antipodes would be just as important to the Commonwealth as it had been to the colonial Empire . |
| 5 | More sensitive than their counterparts at the beginning of the decade had been to the technical qualities of Hollywood films , the critics of the time constantly drew attention to the gap between the aspirations and the achievements of British films . |
| 6 | Five years ago people might have thought her greatest contribution had been to the British fashion industry . |
| 7 | I was almost certain that she had been to the British Museum no more recently than I had myself . |
| 8 | When they met Minton asked Searle if he had been to the Royal Academy where The Death of Nelson was hanging in the Summer Exhibition . |
| 9 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 10 | In essence those statutory provisions had been to the same effect . |
| 11 | Owen had been to the Coptic Cathedral before but not to a Coptic church ; so he was surprised to find that most of the congregation appeared to be on crutches . |
| 12 | The experience has already been invaluable , as proved in the recent World Cup when the backbone of our team had been to the 1990 CANZ series where we lost all four matches ’ . |
| 13 | He had been to the Top Rank entertainment centre in Reading when all the scientists had gathered one evening to formulate a demand for a 40 per cent pay rise . |
| 14 | My father once wrote after he had been to the French Legation to dine : " A forty-minute ride across two ravines and a swamp , then a shocking road up to the house on a moonless night is really no fun . " |
| 15 | His father had been to the Wesleyan Collegiate Institution at Taunton until the age of sixteen , when he had left and gone into the business . |